Stiletto



(No Model.)

SQL. PRATT.

STILBTTO.

Patented June 5r, 1,883.

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SAMUEL L. PRATT, OF HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS- STI LETTO.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,733, dated June 5, 1883.

Application filed November 1, 1882. (no model.)

-ence being had to the accompanying drawings,

and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon,`which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in stilettos.

The object of my invention is to produce an instrument which shall facilitate the operation .of attaching a button to any article.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my invention; Fig. 2, a perspective view to illustrate the method of operation; Fig. 3, a plan view, also to illustrat-e the method of operation; Fig. 4, an enlarged elevation of the point and open eye of the stiletto; Fig. 5, a cross-section on line xx of Fig. 4, showing shape of the blade of the point and the shoulders or anges on-each side ofthe blade or shank.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The point a, the handle b, the shank c, the blade d, the eye e, and the flanges h 71y constitute the stiletto. v

In Fig. 2 is shown the first part ofthe operation of attaching a button with a fastener, f, to any material, A, such as the front of a boot or shoe. The fastener is placed over the blade in the open eye and rests on the flanges of the point, and is prevented from turning and held in place for the nent operation, which is drawing the fastener through the material onto the opposite side from the button.

ln Fig. 3 the lower stiletto shows the fastener as it appears just after itis drawn through the material, 'while the upper one shows the stiletto reverse d for the purpose of turning. the fastener and setting it in place. The lower cut shows the fastener in place as it is left by the stiletto, and g the shape of the channel made in the material by the stiletto.

The blade d is made thin and sufficiently high, in connection with. the hooked-shaped eye e, to easily reverse the fastener. A button-fastener, j' f, is shown in Fig. 5 resting on the iianges or shoulders h h of the point. The eye e, as will be noticed, is T-shaped, thus forming the overhanging hooked portions, as shown in Fig. 4, and the flanges h at the sides of the blade extend at a point back of the eye to a point forward and beyond it, thus enabling a more successful operation of applying the fastener by the stiletto constructed as above described. These flanges 7th extend, as shown in Fig. 4, onto the shank, and so form the peculiar shaped channel shown. The shank should be made only of sufficient length to just pass through the material and( allowa fastener to be attached and a channel of the size desired to' be made. To accomplish this, the handle with its larger diameter .is made to act as a guard; The shank is shaped as in Fig. 5, increasing in height toward the handle.

The stiletto can be made of any suitable material, in one piece, with a guard in the shank, but I prefer to make the point of steel and attach to it a handle ofwood.

The channel made by this stiletto affords a place for the eye of the button, and also a place in its proper position in relation to the- `button for the convex portion of the fastener, in which the eye ofthe button rests, and so allows the fastener to adhere closely to the niaterial on which it is placed.

The operation performed by the stiletto is as follows: It is first inserted through the material with the blade and eye uppermost. The fastener j', with a button attached, is placed in the eye e, over the blade d, resting on the anges h h ofthe stiletto, which, beingfdramr from the material, draws with it the fastener to the other side ofthe material from that on which the button is. The stiletto being then reversed, the fastener is reversed, too, and placed in position.

Heretofore fasteners ofsubstantially the kind shown in the accompanying drawings have been inserted into any material by hand after a simple hole of no practical shape had been punctured by any instrument, such as ahorseshoe-nail. This was a very slow and tedious process. My invention performs the double IOO functionof punoturing zn properly-shaped hole .and back of the eye, substantially as shown, 1o and inserting the fastener in, as it were, the and for the purpose set forth. vsame not. I Witness whereof I have hereunto set my What I claim, and desire to secure by Lethand. v 5 ters Patent, is

A stiletto consisting of zt blade pointed at its end and having the T-shaped slot forming Vl/itnessesz SAMUEL L. PRATT.

the overhang-inghookedportions7 as described, IVM. B. H. DOWSE, and flanges at its sides, which extend forward NVM. LYNCH. 

